What you need to know
This is a video about a new (expensive) railway, delivered over a 62 year period. Yet there’s more to it. Factors present in Melbourne can be applied to cities across the globe:
- Urbanisation — Worldbank forecast that 56% of the global population currently live in cities, this will grow to 70% by 2050
- Decentralisation — the planning model of central districts for jobs and services, suburban accommodation, no longer works.
- Increased pressure on urban planning departments to manage, design and implement new infrastructures to reflect work / live practices
- Changes in transport planning,i.e. the move away from cars towards greener sustainable transit methods
- The need to combat transport…